{"id":2325851,"date":"2026-03-13T03:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2325851"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:07:20","slug":"daniel-radcliffe-schmoozes-with-the-audience-in-sweet-one-man-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/daniel-radcliffe-schmoozes-with-the-audience-in-sweet-one-man-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Radcliffe schmoozes with the audience in sweet one-man show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F03%2Fnewspress-collage-tnllo30h2-1773345441611.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261773331101\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tTheater review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline-module--review__title subsection-heading-semi\">\n\t\t\tEVERY BRILLIANT THING\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rating\">\n<div class=\"rating__stars\">\n<div class=\"rating__star rating__star--filled\"><?php \/**\n * Review star.\n * \n * @package nyp-editor\n *\/\n\n??><\/p>\n<style><![CDATA[\n\t.review-block-star {\n\t\t--review-block-star--empty-color: #585858;\n\t\t--review-block-star--fill-color: #000;\n\t}\n]]><\/style>\n<p><svg class=\"icon-star review-block-star\" stroke=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\" fill=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\" stroke-width=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" height=\"13px\" width=\"13px\">\n\t<defs>\n\t\t<lineargradient id=\"half-gradient\">\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"50%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\"\/>\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"0%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\"\/>\n\t\t<\/lineargradient>\n\t<\/defs>\n\t<path d=\"M3.612 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width=\"13px\">\n\t<defs>\n\t\t<lineargradient id=\"half-gradient\">\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"50%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\"\/>\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"0%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\"\/>\n\t\t<\/lineargradient>\n\t<\/defs>\n\t<path d=\"M3.612 15.443c-.386.198-.824-.149-.746-.592l.83-4.73L.173 6.765c-.329-.314-.158-.888.283-.95l4.898-.696L7.538.792c.197-.39.73-.39.927 0l2.184 4.327 4.898.696c.441.062.612.636.283.95l-3.523 3.356.83 4.73c.078.443-.36.79-.746.592L8 13.187l-4.389 2.256z\">\n\t<\/path>\n<\/svg>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>One hour and 20 minutes, with no intermission. At the Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th Street.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that Daniel Radcliffe has outgrown Harry Potter. On Broadway, most of all.<\/p>\n<p>The British boy-wizard-turned-man-thespian has starred in six shows over nearly 20 years in parts as divergent as a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2008\/09\/26\/giddyup\/\">troubled teen who stabs horses<\/a> and a power-hungry <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2011\/03\/28\/shows-good-clean-fund\/\">singing businessman<\/a>. Tony-winning Radcliffe takes risks, and gets better and better for it. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in the warm one-man play \u201cEvery Brilliant Thing,\u201d which opened Thursday night at the Hudson Theatre after hundreds of stagings around the globe, the gifted actor\u2019s distant Potter past comes back to haunt him. In a good way! For the first time, I felt him running toward Hogwarts, not away from it.<\/p>\n<p>During the aughts, Radcliffe was synonymous with Harry, the fictional wand-wielder hundreds of millions of people grew up with and profoundly related to; an orphaned student who endured a traumatic childhood, battled demons (sometimes literal ones) and still ended every film and book with an attitude of hope.<\/p>\n<p>Now at the Hudson, the actor begins as a different youngster faced with hardship. Yet we feel, in a deeply empathetic sense, as if we already know him.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After his mom attempts suicide, an innocent 7-year-old decides to make her a list of the world\u2019s wonders (less the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, more \u201cice cream\u201d and \u201cChristopher Walken\u2019s hair\u201d). He wants to do something to help, so he becomes the boy who lived life to the fullest.<\/p>\n<p>As the narrator ages, finds love and experiences heartbreak and loss, the list explodes to contain hundreds of thousands of items and evolves to be just as much for him as it is for her.<\/p>\n<p>The natural qualities that made Radcliffe a perfect Harry echo in the unnamed main character in Duncan Macmillan\u2019s 2013 mental-health play: his excitable geekiness, comforting aura and palpable interest in other people.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a relief because the audience is his only co-star.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Daniel Radcliffe stars in \u201cEvery Brilliant Thing\u201d on Broadway. <span class=\"credit\">Matthew Murphy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before the lights go down, an older, bearded Radcliffe mingles with the crowd as they file in from the street into the theater that has been resituated intimately in the round, and he hands out assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody shrieked or froze up when confronted by the star, from what I could tell. Their faces betrayed a fuzzy happiness, like a surprise run-in with an old friend. And in a roundabout way, he is one.<\/p>\n<p>Radcliffe, bouncing off the walls, gives ticket-buyers numbered index cards to read (each one has a brilliant thing written on it) or roles to play: his quiet father, a child therapist who turns her sock into a puppet and his college boyfriend, Sam.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Radcliffe\u2019s only co-star in the one-man show is the audience. <span class=\"credit\">Matthew Murphy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chosen few are forced to improvise a little. And on the night I attended, they all had a flair for the dramatic. A tad too much flair, really. One chosen participant had 432,000 Instagram followers. The play\u2019s charms best come through with unassuming players who only know \u201cMethod\u201d as a brand of cleaning products.<\/p>\n<p>The ones clutching paper have an easier job. When prompted, they shout their \u201cthing\u201d when Radcliffe calls out their number. Sounds come at you from all directions.<\/p>\n<p>If, like me, you do not include audience participation on your personal list of brilliant things, know that it\u2019s all voluntary.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Starting from childhood, the main character makes a list of life\u2019s joys. <span class=\"credit\">Matthew Murphy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The play, directed by Macmillan and Jeremy Herrin, is brisk \u2014 about 80 minutes \u2014 and always affable. Although I can\u2019t say I was bowled over by anything but the leading man.<\/p>\n<p>Since its star-is-born run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/12\/14\/charming-brit-import-every-brilliant-thing-enrolls-audience-to-catalog-the-best-in-life\/\">and winding up off-Broadway that same year<\/a>, \u201cEvery Brilliant Thing\u201d has grown a bit dated and, frankly, quaint. Social media and the internet don\u2019t play a role, for instance, when they are enormously relevant to the mental health conversation.<\/p>\n<p>And the show\u2019s tone sometimes brings to mind the old positive-thinking craze, a la Shonda Rhimes\u2019 \u201cYear of Yes.\u201d Its humor can lean hokey as well, but that\u2019s forgivable. This is aiming to be uplifting \u2014 not \u201cOh, Mary!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Radcliffe\u2019s vitalizing and vulnerable performance, a cardio workout both physically and emotionally, that\u2019s the reason to go. He\u2019s its most brilliant thing. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theater review EVERY BRILLIANT THING One hour and 20 minutes, with no intermission. At the Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th Street. It\u2019s safe to say that Daniel Radcliffe has outgrown Harry Potter. On Broadway, most of all. 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